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Waking the Dead

by Kerry Blaisdell

Hyacinth always assumed dying would simplify her life. But when her new boss, Archangel Michael, sends her on her first official mission—to retrieve a powerful rock from a collector in Germany—things go downhill fast. For one thing, the Dead keep popping up, expecting her to guide them to the Afterlife. For another, her part-demon nephew Geordi's powers are starting to leak out, at age seven. What if Michael finds out about him? Worse, what if Satan does?

Then there'... more

Divining Young Blood

by Jillian Cypress

Hannah was a young woman struggling to keep afloat in her unfortunate human life until a walk home from work took a dark and tragic turn. She was suddenly thrust into an ancient and highly structured society and is now learning how to be a vampire, what it means to be human, and the true definition of family.

The Last Man Alive

by Victor Kontos

It is the year 2068. Humanity spends most of their time working, interacting in social media, and experiencing enhanced sexual ecstasy within an Alternate Reality under the watchful eye of the Department of Mental Health. Every thought and action is scrutinized. This is the new normal.

One young man, Erwin Gomes, has grown jaded with the state of the world. When he meets Juliette Petain, he begins to realize that he is not the only one questions the society for which they live and remem... more

Fish Seeking Bicycle

by Kate Cooch

“Time is not a river. Time is a pendulum.” - Arna Bontemps. 100 years in the future women run what is left of a post-apocalyptic world. Men are required to behave with deference or face being medicated and sent to work camps. After discovering her mother’s lifeless body, university student Hazel Patel decides to leave the safety of Center City and seek out the father she has never met. In the process, she winds up in the feared wilderness struggling to survive with a group of work camp escap... more

Ants In My Blood

by Kevin Berg

Love and parasites, painfully hungry work, people in the water, vindication at a price, itchy needles, lingering debts, ignored warnings, and the true cost of an epidemic. Experience the worst kind of parental guidance, watch the devil bleed, and wait for the eternal messengers to take you apart before carrying the last pieces of you away. Straddling the boundaries between horror, suspense, dark humor, and the bizarre - Ants In My Blood is a diverse collection featuring eighteen compelling ta... more

Pandora Syndrome

by April Wahlin

After being shot outside a club on her twenty-first birthday, Pandora Todd, aka Dora, finds herself in the bed of a handsome stranger with a pair of snake-like fangs. Now, instead of a hangover, Dora wakes with an intense hunger for blood and the strange ability to control all things dead, a distinctly un-vampire trait. Unfortunately, just when Dora grows accustomed to the vampire aspects of her eternal life, she finds herself targeted by a rival necromancer. Soon, Dora becomes wrapped up in a p... more

Thirteen Offerings: Stories of Ithiria

by April Wahlin

In this fantasy anthology, the brothers Bondye have come from all across the world of Ithiria with tales of weary navigators, fearsome monsters, and ancient creatures. However, only a few of the brothers are able to make the trip. With interruptions from the fates and delayed siblings, they struggle to present the thirteen tales needed to revitalize their guardianship of Ithiria.

Midnight: The First Novel of Maximus

by Kevin V Haulsee

A castaway has to escape the island she's been condemned to for years and take up the mantle of MIDNIGHT, her fantasy world's first superhero, to stop those who betrayed her so long ago from triggering a worldwide war.

Wild Thymes on the 22

by Stewart Sheargold

Iris has always been a bit of a name-dropper. She was there when it all began, when it peaked, when it started going pear-shaped. Iris was there: tinkering with the spaceship design on the Star Wars set, upsetting Warhol’s films in the Factory, sexing it up with Chaucer, conjuring ghosts with Kate Bush, cross-dressing and undressing with Fanny and Stella, and arguing for her very existence with a nefarious biographer known as Magrs…

Pop star, fashion diva, writer, artiste, ... more

Sweetblade

by Carol A. Park

Every decision she had thought was right had led her astray. Perhaps it was time to make the wrong decision. Lives are shaped by decisions, and Ivana's decisions have destroyed her life. She finds herself on the streets of Carradon, broken, destitute, and utterly alone. But perhaps not entirely without hope. A man named Elidor comes to her rescue and welcomes her into his home. But Elidor holds secrets of his own. Lives may turn upon a single moment, and Ivana's decision to accept the... more

Banebringer (The Heretic Gods Book 1)

by Carol A. Park

BANEBRINGERS. Source of the bloodbane who stalk the land. Cause of a thousand wrongs. Despised. Cast out. Hunted. Vaughn never asked for the powers of a long-forgotten moon goddess. But rarely do the gods give humans a choice when using them in their machinations. Now Vaughn is a Banebringer, loathed by all who discover his true identity—even his father, a man obsessed with his own power and bent on destroying Vaughn's miserable life. Vaughn is desperate to end his father before the madma... more

Ultimate Weapon

by Anthony Phillips

Five people who have come together, not by choice but by fate. In their possessions are the ULTIMATE WEAPONS! A New chapter in the development of human history begins now. Ace, Patricia, Mercedes, Lisa, and Kris are now the most powerful humans on the planet. They now have Ancient technology that will save the galaxy from the RECA! The NSA is training the five Avatars, to control their abilities and unlock other talents that the Ultimate weapons have locked away. The questions we should ask ours... more

Balam, Spring

by Travis M. Riddle

Balam is a sleepy town on the eastern coast of Atlua, surrounded by forest and sea. It’s a village where nothing happens and everybody knows each other. But now, people are dying. School is out for the spring, and schoolteacher Theodore Saen is ready to spend the next few months relaxing with his family. But when the town’s resident white mage falls ill and several townspeople begin to show similar symptoms, they must call on a new mage. Aava has freshly graduated from the nearby mage academy... more

The Narrows

by Travis M. Riddle

"I can show you how to enter the Narrows to find what you seek."

Oliver and his friends have returned to their hometown of Shumard, Texas for the funeral of their close friend Noah. They each grapple with the loss in their own ways, trying to understand the strange circumstances of their friend's unexpected death.

While visiting the site where the body was found, Oliver stumbles across a chilling discovery that he knows must be ... more

Entangled: The Chasing Light Series Book 1

by Lewis Masters

In the near future, a scientist infatuated with the idea of creating a faster than light vehicle builds a small team to try to do the impossible. Funded by his dead father's unsavory money, and enticing a collection of oddball geniuses to join his dream, the man works towards not one, but two ground breaking technologies that could change the world as we know it. That is if he and his team can survive the dangerous waters of international politics and state-sponsored terror that would steal his ... more

Tales of Kingshold: (Wildfire Cycle Book 1.5)

by D. P. Woolliscroft

I am Mareth and I collect tales - tales that do not make the official histories. Join me and learn the secret stories of those who sparked the wildfire. Stories from our past, from that fateful summer and its aftermath.

If you loved Kingshold, discover the next installment in the epic Wildfire Cycle. Tales of Kingshold, Book 1.5 of the Wildfire Cycle, includes four novelettes and six short stories.

NOVELETTES:

Of Buccaneers and Bards (previously published separately) Vin Kol... more

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